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In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions
analysethis writes "In the UK last month the author/compiler of the well-known-in-Internet-circles 'terrorist handbook' pleaded guilty to seven counts of collecting information that could have been used to prepare or commit acts of terrorism, with a maximum jail term of 10 years. Today the first people caught with downloaded copies have been put behind bars — a white-supremacist father and son pairing getting 10 and two years respectively, convicted of three counts of possessing material useful for acts of terror. How many will be emptying their recycle bins after this conviction? As of writing, the book is still freely available on Amazon.com to buy." Note: it seems that there's some overlapping nomenclature at play. Terrance Brown, the man who pleaded guilty to terror charges last month, is said to have been distributing a CD set including among other things extracts from Al-Qaeda manuals. His "cookbook" differs then from William Powell's 1971 book by a similar title, though (confusingly enough) the linked Wikipedia article implies that the father-and-son pair arrested possessed a copy of the Powell book as well; its text may well have been among the materials that Brown distributed.
I agree with nearly all your post. I take some exception at the narrowness of this:
And never forget there are plenty on the far sides of the political spectrum that would just looove to throw anyone in jail who reads Marx or Mao or anything that is other than "Capitalism Fuck Yeah!"
When Marx & Mao both imprisoned and killed people for reading/possessing "pro-capitalist" literature, books, movies, etc and/or speaking out.
Right now in the US, pro-capitalists, particularly vocal ones like the Tea Party members and others, are being called terrorists, fascists, violent extremists, etc etc by those in government and their private sector backers like the unions despite the lack of any violence by Tea Party protesters. The only violence so far has been carried out by pro-government groups like unions and community organizations in an attempt to discourage opposition and silence protests.
They're getting attention from/labeled as a likely threat by DHS, and being attacked with crude/obscene ad-hominems and generally attacked and portrayed and/or labeled as violent/dangerous/racist/ignorant/homophobic by most broadcast & cable network news programs despite lack of any factual evidence. There are apparently, from their own statements on camera, a number of people in high positions in the current administration who express admiration for Mao & Marx among others, and even some of their ideological dogmas.
Republicans have been nearly as bad. It doesn't actually have anything to do with Republicans or Democrats. It's Progressives, who count Communists and Socialists as their allies, and who have become expert at co-opting other ideologies' common names and other political parties multiple times since the 1920s to avoid popular condemnation for failed policies and economic declines. It's historic fact (which seems to be another thing they like to revise & rewrite to suit). They've seized nearly-complete control of the Democratic Party and have made serious inroads into the Republican Party.
Capitalism and free market principles are being systematically demonized and their adherents personally vilified and attacked by an organized Progressive propaganda program with the "useful idiots" in the mainstream media and academia as accomplices. I don't understand academics and media-types being in favor of Progressiveism, as they'd be among the first eliminated if Progressives seized total power.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Now that is one fugly, man-faced hoe! No wonder she decided to go dyke. Being the butch was her only option with a face like that. Why does she always look like she's grimacing when she's smiling? *shudders*